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Title: The NORC Research on the Arkansas Tornado: A Fountainhead Study
Authors: Quarantelli, E. L.
Keywords: Disaster Research
Tornado-Case Studies
Issue Date: Nov-1988
Publisher: Research Committee on Disasters, International Sociological Association
Citation: International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters
Series/Report no.: Article
204b
Abstract: In this review and analysis of the research effort in the disaster area by NORC [National Opinion Research Center] we shall present: (1) the general background of the work; (2)the nature of the field research undertaken; (3) a selective summary of the substantive focus and findings from the largest single field study within the NORC work, namely on the Arkansas tornado; (4) a brief overall assessment of the research done, and (5) some of the important consequences of what NORC did in the disaster area.
URI: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/2766
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